Many know my more recent genre Buses and Girls photography as those earlier buses I really like have all gone so now I enjoy my bus hobby more for the photography. As well as being an artist I owned a small transport business before I retired but today I have a little job too driving a minibus dong a school run to Wolverhampton in the afternoon and occasionally other jobs. It gets me out and about and satisfies my childhood ambition to drive a bus.
Saturday 25 October 2008
Porto: Chris I'M an OM
Amongst the many interest buses to be seen in Porto in 1984 was this attractive OM Fiat based midibus.
Fantastic picture! This is one of the little gems built by UTIC on OM chassis for a company called Moreira, Gomes e Costas. If ever we would have had the financial means to preserve buses in Portugal, this one would have been on the list. In the back a state-of-the-art (in those days) UTIC Europa and at the right, with the cheerful driver, one of the UTIC beauties that always have been my favourite type.
Fantastic picture! This is one of the little gems built by UTIC on OM chassis for a company called Moreira, Gomes e Costas. If ever we would have had the financial means to preserve buses in Portugal, this one would have been on the list. In the back a state-of-the-art (in those days) UTIC Europa and at the right, with the cheerful driver, one of the UTIC beauties that always have been my favourite type.
ReplyDeleteGlad you like this one Durate, I do too. When was it built?
ReplyDeleteAccording to the license plate this bus must have been built in 1965 or 1966.
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